The Psychology of Science: A Reconnaissance

by Abraham H. Maslow

A fascinating glimpse of what science and medicine might be like if we could work to "re-humanize" them. Maslow contrasts humanistic science with value-free, orthodox science, and offers a new knowledge paradigm to replace classical "scientific objectivity". This eBook edition contains the complete 168 page text of the original 1966 hardcover edition. Preface by Abraham H. Maslow Acknowledgments 1. Mechanistic and Humanistic Science 2. Acquiring Knowledge of a Person as a Task for the Scientist 3. The Cognitive Needs Under Conditions of Fear and of Courage 4. Safety Science and Growth Science as a Defense 5. Prediction and Control of Persons? 6. Experiential Knowledge and Spectator Knowledge 7. Abstracting and Theorizing 8. Comprehensive Science and Simpleward Science 9. Suchness Meaning and Abstractness Meaning 10. Taoistic Science and Controlling Science 11. Interpersonal (I - Thou) Knowledge as a Paradigm for Science 12. Value-Free Science 13. Stages, Levels, and Degrees of Knowledge 14. The Desacralization and the Resacralization of Science Endnotes Bibliography Index

Genres: Psychology, Science, Nonfiction, Philosophy, Sociology

168 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1966

About the author

American psychologist Abraham Harold Maslow developed the theory of a hierarchy of needs and contended that satisfying basic physiological needs afterward motivates people to attain affection, then esteem, and finally self-actualization.

The first of seven children to Russian immigrant Jewish parents, he received his Bachelor of Arts in 1930, his Magister Artium in 1931 and his Philosophiae Doctor in 1934 in psychology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Maslow taught full time at Brooklyn college, then at Brandeis, where he was named chair of psychology in 1951. People know humanist-based Maslow, for proposing for an individual to meet to achieve ably. Maslow analyzed and found reality-centered achievers.

Among many books of Maslow, Religion, Values, and Peak-Experiences , not a free-thought treatise, neither limited "peak experiences" to the religious nor necessarily ascribe such phenomena to supernaturalism. In the introduction to the book, Maslow warned that perhaps "not only selfish but also evil" mystics single-mindedly pursue personal salvation, often at the expense of other persons. The American humanist association named Maslow humanist of the year in 1967.

Later in life, questions, such as, "Why don't more people self-actualize if their basic needs are met? How can we humanistically understand the problem of evil?," concerned Maslow.

In the spring of 1961, Maslow and Tony Sutich founded the Journal of Humanistic Psychology with Miles Vich as editor until 1971. The journal printed its first issue in early 1961 and continues to publish academic papers.

Maslow attended the founding meeting of the association for humanistic psychology in 1963 and declined nomination as its president but argued that the new organization develop an intellectual movement without a leader; this development resulted in useful strategy during the early years of the field.

Maslow, an atheist, viewed religion.

While jogging, Maslow suffered a severe heart attack and died on June 8, 1970 at the age of 62 in Menlo Park, California.

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Reviews

[Pavel · Rating 4 out of 5]

Maslow hopes to transform the personality of the orthodox scientist, using selected tools of psychoanalysis, in order (i) to enhance the knowledge of the external world (to improve science), and (ii) to include the knowledge of the internal world into the scientific purview (to expand science). There are many fine thoughts and ideas, but one wonders about whether these thoughts and ideas can be put to work in any systematic or institutionalised way.

[Teri Temme · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is why Maslow is on my private "Board of Directors" :)

"....improvement of psychological health makes the person a better knower, even a better scientist, and ... a very good path to improved and fuller humanness or health has been via self-knowledge, insight, and honesty with oneself."

"...if you love something or someone enough at the level of Being, then you can enjoy its actualization of itself, which means that you will not want to interfere with it, since you love it as it is in itself."

[Elie · Rating 5 out of 5]

I read this a while ago and I remember the first review I’d written about it: this is a seminal work (and a quite self-referential one, judging by its subject-matter) about the psychopathology and the (so called) non-pathology of traditionally healthy people; about how a scientist is to deal with the norms and normative behavioral canons, not only in a social context, but also within the confines of his own discipline. One word about this monograph: eye-opener.

[Ayşegül Kpınar]

I'm curious about Maslow's "Psychology of Science".

[westernwinds]

"When you have a hammer, everything looks like a nail." The law of the instrument, attributed to Maslow.

[Alexander Evendy · Rating 5 out of 5]

I think this book ok